Packer Contracts in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Packer over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 509 531
Rank change year-on-year +52 +22 +2
Contract jobs citing Packer 37 45 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.92% 0.97% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 80
10th Percentile £411 £456 £459
25th Percentile £425 £463 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -14.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £663
90th Percentile £624 £926 £675
UK median daily rate £560 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,028 4,643 7,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.71% 12.51% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,690 3,353 5,149
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £409 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £610 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -1.73% -5.45% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 96 161
10th Percentile £19.63 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.34 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £49.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.61 £71.25 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £35.14 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +8.11% -43.48% +155.56%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Packer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Packer in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Packer in England.

Daily rate trend for Packer in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +40 26 £575 +9.52% 47
South East +51 5 £435 -33.08% 24
North of England +9 3 £403 -12.97% 21
North East +3 2 £403 -26.82% 2
South West +36 1 £500 -23.08% 10
North West - 1 - - 12
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (43.24%) nginx
2 15 (40.54%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 31 (83.78%) AWS
2 17 (45.95%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (18.92%) GitHub
4 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (13.51%) Azure
4 5 (13.51%) OpenShift
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 3 (8.11%) Route 53
6 3 (8.11%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.41%) Akamai
7 2 (5.41%) Datadog
7 2 (5.41%) IaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
1 3 (8.11%) SSH
2 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) DHCP
3 1 (2.70%) HTTP
3 1 (2.70%) Internet
3 1 (2.70%) NAS
3 1 (2.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.51%) Redis
3 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (56.76%) Git
2 16 (43.24%) JIRA
3 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
4 6 (16.22%) GitLab
5 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.70%) Maven
6 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.70%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Lead
2 15 (40.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (29.73%) Technical Leader
4 4 (10.81%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (8.11%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (2.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (16.22%) Kafka
2 6 (16.22%) Keycloak
3 5 (13.51%) YAML
4 2 (5.41%) Node.js
5 1 (2.70%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Hedge funds
1 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.70%) PKI
2 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (86.49%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Rocky
3 3 (8.11%) Windows
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (5.41%) CentOS
4 2 (5.41%) Unix
5 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Agile
2 21 (56.76%) DevOps
3 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
4 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
5 11 (29.73%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (24.32%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (21.62%) Observability
7 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (16.22%) Immutable Infrastructure
9 5 (13.51%) Scrum
9 5 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (10.81%) Security Hardening
11 3 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Automation
11 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
11 3 (8.11%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (8.11%) Server Management
11 3 (8.11%) Test Automation
12 2 (5.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Bash
2 13 (35.14%) Python
3 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.11%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) Go
6 1 (2.70%) Groovy
6 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (59.46%) SC Cleared
1 22 (59.46%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) HIPAA
1 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (56.76%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (100.00%) Terraform
2 32 (86.49%) Kubernetes
3 19 (51.35%) Ansible
4 15 (40.54%) Consul
5 8 (21.62%) Grafana
5 8 (21.62%) Prometheus
6 4 (10.81%) Puppet
7 3 (8.11%) Kustomize
8 2 (5.41%) FortiGate
8 2 (5.41%) Kibana
9 1 (2.70%) Argo
9 1 (2.70%) Graylog
9 1 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (2.70%) Nessus
9 1 (2.70%) WSUS
9 1 (2.70%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Splunk
2 5 (13.51%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Black Duck
4 1 (2.70%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) Citrix
4 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) Okta
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Tenable